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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Reece SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3807728 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature 20080501 7195
Malaria parasites and related Apicomplexans are the causative agents of the some of the most serious infectious diseases of humans, companion animals, livestock and wildlife. These parasites must undergo sexual reproduction to transmit from vertebrate hosts to vectors, and their sex ratios are consistently female-biased. Sex allocation theory, a cornerstone of evolutionary biology, is remarkably successful at explaining female-biased sex ratios in multicellular taxa, but has proved controversial ...[more]